Mex., 1846‑48, when he completed the defenses of the place, opened a new channel to the Tamesi River, held various civil offices, and was engaged in the Combat of Calabaza River, July 12, 1847, and Skirmish of Tantoyuca, July, 1847.

Disbanded, July 10, 1848.

Civil History. — Planter, Natchitoches, La., 1848‑61. Civil Engineer, 1848‑61, employed in the improvement of the Navigation of the Red River, — Survey of Catahoula Shoals, Washita River, etc. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, 1851‑53, — and of the Senate, 1853‑55. Major-General, Louisiana Militia, 1848‑61.

The Author's Note:

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The President, "upon full consideration of his case, thinking he had been too rigidly dealt by," directed, Nov. 28, 1844, that "he be restored to his original rank and position upon the happening of the first vacancy," of which none occurred before the expiration of his administration.

Thayer's Note: The law required that disbursing officers failing to render their accounts for settlement in due time be promptly reported to the President of the United States and dismissed from the public service.

Thayer's Note:

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Birth data and burial place are from "The Life and Times of Lewis DeRussy" by Steven M. Mayeux, a paper presented before the First Annual Frontier History Symposium at Fort Jesup, Louisiana, March 1, 2002
(online at Friends of Fort DeRussy, Inc.). The paper contains much good biographical information; including the fact, not mentioned in Cullum, that De Russy was the brother of René E. de Russy, who was Superintendent of the Military Academy.

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